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kew october 2025

Matt forgot his camera so pictures below are a mixture

Taxodium distichum - Swamp Cypress

The statue has returned to Winsor Castle its original home.

Neoshirakia japonica a member of the Euphorbia family

Toad lily - tricyrtis

Eryngium pandanifolium

In the Bonsai house

Scilla madeirensis

Plus a bumble

Crocus tournefortii

Oxalis hirta 'Gothenburg'

Saffron Buckwheat - Eriogonum crocatum

Lachenalia ensifolia

Oxalis melanosticia

Beauverdia

Rhododendron laetum

Bomaria edulis?

Aloe ibiensis

Stapelia gigantea

Hoya

Cattleya hybrid

Dendrobium

Spathe

Musa hackkinenii

Ginko biloba

Mist on the leaves

Holly flowers

Rhododendron macgregoriae

 

This is an artwork from the "Material Worlds" exhibition at the Temperate House in Kew Gardens. The exhibition features artworks that explore the connection between fashion and nature, and highlight the need for a more sustainable textile sector. 

Rhododendron hybrid

Global threads see below:

Tibouchina urvilleana

This enlarges enough to read

Kew Gardens commissioned Lottie Delamain Studio to design a garden for the Temperate House that celebrated the storied global history of plants and textiles. 

Using contemporary motifs that are all too familiar to us today, the garden will emerge out of planted islands of ‘textile waste’, reaching up to a series of full-height textile installations to reveal the beauty to be found in botanical colour.

Each island represents a continent, featuring dye and fibre plants from that region, including one ‘hyper-local’ island which will contain plants foraged locally by natural dye educator Kate Turnbull, with the Youth Forum.

By the Winter Garden

Spindle berries

Cornus berries

Birches

Clerodendron trichotomum

 

We had a drink before coming home